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Lee, Thomas

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Lee, Thomas (1551/2–1601), soldier, was the son of Benedict Lee (d. 1559), a Buckinghamshire landowner, and Margaret, daughter of Robert Packington of Worcestershire. He claimed kinship with the earls of Essex and was cousin to Sir Henry Lee (d. 1611). He was English by birth and protestant in religion, yet his two wives were Old English recusants: ...

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